so I bought this iBeacon via ebay and I have no clue how to find it or how to get UUID to copy into Pushcut.
The Pushcut support/help documents don’t explain that step and I find the entire process unintuitive.
There is an app called “BLE Scanner”, which scans for devices around, but I have no idea how to identify the beacon in it. I have a guess based on watching the scanner screen with and without the battery in the device, but I can’t “connect” to it via BLE Scanner.
If I copy the UUID of another Bluetooth enabled device that is stationary in my office to—as I thought, use it as a beacon—and add its UUID to Pushcut the automations/notifications won’t be triggered.
I feel that I have a general misunderstanding of how to use iBeacons and can’t find any end user tutorial.
Any guidance or hints are highly appreciated!
Hi there,
even so this post was created 4 years ago, I am in the same position as Leo and I am looking for help as well. Can anybody help with some advice please?
I bought an ibeacon with a NRF51822 chip. I did the same as Leo and installed the “BLE Scanner” on my iPhone 13. The scanner app shows about 19 devices, among others my iPad, my MacBook, my Apple watch and a device called Holy-IOT.
Based on the approx. distance that is show by the scanner, this must be “my iBeacon”. I removed the battery and the device disapears from the list of devices and as soon as I put the battery back, Holy-IOT is back on the list of scanned devices. So I am quite sure, Holy-IOT is my ibeacon.
On my iPhone I have installed pushcut. I created a notification with a trigger. Location is enabled using the UUID, that is shown by the BLE Scanner for my Holy-IOT, to define the location “when arriving”. Details can be seen in the following 2 screenshots:
I have made many attempts to produce a notification but nothing happens. I turned on and off bluetooth on my iPhone, I removed and reinstalled the battery on the ibeacon. Just NOTHING!
First, try getting your iBeacon to generate a new UUID and see if that works. UUID are a big string of text, numbers, and hyphens. Yours looks suspiciously short and maybe the software somewhere in the chain sees that as an issue and ignores it.
You can get an example/alternative here:
Make sure you have given Pushcut access to always query your precise location.
